Hog and cattle separating device



No. 330,412. Patented Nov. '17, 1885.

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`DANIEL L. MONROE, OF DRAKEVILLE, IOWA.

HOG AND CATTLE SEPARATING DEVICE.

SEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,412, dated November 17, 1885.

Application tiled Juy 6, 1F85. Serial No. 170,713. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL L. MONROE, a citizen of the United States ol' America, and a resident of Drakeville, in the county of Davis and State of Iowa, have invented a Hog and Cattle Separating Device, of which the tollowing is a specication.

My object is to connect two adjoining elds or yards in such a manner that cattle can freely pass from one inclosure to the other, while hogs that enter the same passage-way will be directed back into the saine inclosure from whence they started. I accomplish the results contemplated by the construction and application `of a device, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whioh Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 a perA spectve view, of my invention.

A represents a division -fence, having an opening for the passage of cattle, and panels B, extending at right angles from the opposite sides of the opening.

Nos. l 2 3 4 represent a series of boards about sixteen 16) inches wide and sixty (60) inches long, set on edge, xed together at their inner ends, and in right-angled position. Their outer ends are rigidly connected by boards C, of the same width, tlxed thereto as required, to produce a rigid frame that can 'be placed flat upon the ground, or a floor resting upon the ground. The boards thus retained on edge, and in parallel position, are about fifteen (15) inches apart, and the spaces between their ends that forni acute angles with the boards C are about one-fourth (t) larger than the spaces between the boards.

D D are boards or rails in the panels B, about twenty (20) inches above the surface of the ground or iioor upon which the frame is placed, and the sides Cof the frame are about eighteen (18) inches distant and outside of the panels B. Y

F F are boards fixed to the frame and posts to close the spaces between the. frame and the posts underneath the boards D.

G G are boards set on edge and fixed to the boards F, to aid in fastening and bracing the frame and guard thus constructed and cour bined with a fence. v

By the practical use of 1ny invention hogs and cattle can be fed together in a yard or corn-field, and the cattle permitted to go into an adjoining eld to graze or to drink and to return again at pleasure by simply stepping over the series of boards that set on edge in the frame or guard; but when a hog attempts to go through the cattle-pass and jumps over one of the boards set on edge the narrow space in which he will find himself inclosed will the narrow passage and under the panel rail or board D, and then jump out over the side board, O, and thus back again into the saine inclosure frorn whence he started.

I claim as my invention A hog and cattle separating device composed of a wall or fence having an open cattlepassage, and wings or panels extending parallel with each other at the sides of said passage, a series of-boards, 1 2 3 4, set on edge and extending under said panels, and boards C fixed to the outer ends of said series of boards set on edge, substantially as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

DANIEL L. MONROE.

Witnesses:

ALEX. Tours, F. A. PATTERSON.

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